[lbo-talk] Sartre and Beauvoir

Louis Kontos Louis.Kontos at liu.edu
Sat Dec 10 12:54:31 PST 2005


Sartre was not ugly. Socrates, maybe. Regardless, both knew that 'passion' cannot 'passive'. Louis


>
> --- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>
> <<How does one, over the course of a life, combine
> stability and
> kindness with passion? For passion is a virtue and not
> just an
> indulgence. It leads, as Sartre and Beauvoir knew, to
> the greatest
> creativity, the deepest grasp of others, the most
> vivid self-renewal.>>
>
> Thanks for the interesting post Yoshie. I agree and
> disagree with the above statment. Passion can be very
> passive. Something that happens to you. And so, when
> the initial tingling of a relationship fades, you can
> just decide that the solution is to go and get your
> passion fix somewhere else. I am not arguing for
> monogamy, just the sort of sophmoric, negative
> reaction toward monogamy that seems to have afflicted
> Sartre and perhaps Beauvoir.
> On the other hand, it is tempting to think that
> Sartre's serial womanizing had more to do with
> compensating for his ugly appearance than it did with
> his purported attack on the bourgeois institution of
> marriage.
>
> -Thomas
>
>
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